Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other compromise Murray and Hillman won. Lewis wanted Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen leader often suspected of being a Red, as vice-president. In the end they agreed on big, windy, swaggering Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union...
Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. last week slapped down on the front pages of U. S. papers the result of a year's labor and $110,000 spent in 1940. According to legend, Mr. Dies was chosen for the job of Red hunting by a Texas senior who suggested that this might occupy his mind and thus give his colleagues a rest. True or not, neither the U. S., Congress, Communists, Nazis, Fascists, nor Mr. Dies has had much rest since...
Homely, pock-marked little Pedro Aguirre Cerda won his nickname Don Tinto from the tinto (red wine) squeezed from his prosperous vineyards. Friends of the rotos (ragged ones), his Popular Front took control of Chile away from the other haciendados and big businessmen two years ago, made rich Don Tinto President. Last week Chile's rotos showed their approval, voted his man, Aurelio Cruzat, to victory in a Senatorial by-election...
Later the brash Colonel showed up as the head of a formidable outfit which looked much like Hitler's Elite Guard-the Japan Youth Party, claiming 100,000 ardent members. Its flag, a white sun against a red ball, symbolized "bloodred patriotism under a white-hot sun." The commander of this private army boasted: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit still and talk...
...Charley Royer and Don McSweeney were third string forwards, Larry Hall was the center, and Bill Jackson and Jack Clarke were the guards. On the fourth it was Jim Jenkins and Howie Ezell at forward, Pete Macgowan at center, and A1 Reade and Ray Holtan in the back court. Red Scully and Buzz Downer were not scrimmaging yesterday but be long on the list...